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  The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park 1969: Looking back on the band's legendary free gig

  The famed rockers played the second of two huge Hyde Park shows at the weekend — 53 years after one of their most infamous shows in the exact same place

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  The Telegraph

  How the Stones made Exile On Main Street sound so sleazy

  In the summer of 1971 the Rolling Stones should have been on top of the world. Months earlier, their Sticky Fingers album had been their first to reach number one in both the US and the UK. Yet the band was in crisis. A disastrous relationship with former manager Allen Klein had left them broke, with each member (bar newish guitarist Mick Taylor) owing £100,000 in back taxes. Further, when Klein was fired in 1970 he took the rights to the Stones’ pre-1970 song catalogue with him. So the band mov

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  The Guardian

  ‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it’ – stars on Exile on Main St, the Rolling Stones’ sprawling masterpiece

  ‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it’ – stars on Exile on Main St, the Rolling Stones’ sprawling masterpiece. Recorded during several hedonistic months in a fabulous Côte d’Azur villa, Exile on Main St is seen as the Stones’ epic, creative peak. As the classic album turns 50, stars tell us how it got their rocks off

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  Evening Standard

  London performances feature on new Royal Mail Rolling Stones stamps

  They are only the fourth music group to feature in a dedicated stamp issue.

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  PA Media: UK News

  Royal Mail celebrates the Rolling Stones’ sticky fingers with special stamps

  They are only the fourth music group to feature in a dedicated stamp issue.

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  Sky News

  Stamps celebrate 60 years of The Rolling Stones

  A set of 12 stamps will be launched later this month to celebrate The Rolling Stones, as the band marks its 60th anniversary. Royal Mail said that eight of the stamps feature images of the band's most famous performances, including 1969 in London's Hyde Park, a 1995 concert in Rotterdam, and a gig at the 1976 Knebworth Festival. The Hyde Park event was a free outdoor festival held just two days after the death of the band's founding member Brian Jones.

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  Evening Standard

  World of rock salutes Charlie Watts following Rolling Stones drummer’s death

  The musician was 80.

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  PA Media: Entertainment

  Charlie Watts hailed as ‘one of the greatest drummers’ following his death at 80

  He had been a member of The Rolling Stones since 1963.

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  The Telegraph

  John Mayall is the true granddaddy of rock – and this mammoth collection proves it

  John Mayall is a curious figure in rock history, a bit part player in his own story. At 87, the multi-instrumentalist has been a headline act since the mid-60s, a prolific talent who has written hundreds of songs and released around 70 albums across a career spanning six decades. Before the pandemic, he could still be found out on the road, playing hundreds of gigs a year. Yet you never hear him on oldies radio or film soundtracks, and I suspect most music lovers would be hard pressed to name a

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  The Conversation

  Peter Green: troubled Fleetwood Mac founder leaves legacy of brilliance that shines still

  A virtuoso guitarist and songwriter, Green's career was blighted by drug-amplified mental health problems.

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